Below is a list of three sets of notebooks containing Agrippino Manteo’s Paladini di Francia cycle. PDFs of the privately-owned notebooks can be downloaded from this page. For access to the notebooks donated to the Italian American Museum of New York (in bold), contact the museum directly (info@ItalianAmericanMuseum.org).
For further information about the scripts, see Chapter 2 of Jo Ann Cavallo, The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America (London: Anthem Press, 2023) or Chapter 1.2 of the Italian translation, I paladini di Francia in America: Il teatro dell’Opera dei Pupi di Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947), trans. Paolo Tartamella (Palermo: Edizioni Museo Pasqualino, 2024).
An arrow (>) after the notebooks in the Libri and Paladini sets indicates that these notebooks were repurposed in the Copioni set.
Libro 1 * >. Paladini 1 Copione 3
Libro 2 > Copione 4
Paladini 2 > Copione 5
Libro 5 / Libro 6 Paladini 3 > Copione 6
Libro 6 / Libro 7 Paladini 4 > Copione 7
Copione 8
Paladini 6 Copione 9
Paladini 6 and 7 Copione 10
Paladini 7** Copione 11
Paladini 7 / 8 Copione 12
Paladini 8 Copione 13**
Paladini 9 > Copione 14
[gap in sequence]
Paladini 13 > Copione 18
Paladini 14 > Copione 19
[gap in sequence]
Copione 21
Copione 22
Copione 23
* There are two notebooks titled Libro 1, Agrippino’s original and his son Johnny’s copy. The former can be downloaded at the Libro 1 link; the latter was repurposed as Copione 3.
**Paladini 7 and Copione 13 are privately owned, but the PDFs are too large to upload to the website. Please contact Jo Ann Cavallo (jac3@columbia.edu) to arrange access to these files.